Chapter 6

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Winter was about to start and the cool breeze began to pass. The pink petals of the cherry blossoms carpeted the cemented roads of Heiomachi, where a certain blonde was walking early in the morning to buy some fresh milk in the grocery store.

After nearly 10 minutes of walking, she reached the grocery store and bought the stuffs her mother asked. She paid for it and began to walk again with drowsy eyes.

As she reached their residence she changed her slippers into indoor thongs and went inside. She found her parents together with Ruu in the Dining Room eating some breakfast.

Her mother was busy reminding Ruu to behave and not to give her some worries while she was away.

Her mother Miki Kouzuki turned to her." Miyu take good care of your brother for a while. We'll not be here for three days. So please, bear with your little brother. i know you can't be with him for five minutes without being pissed," then she turned to Ruu." So Ruu be good to your sister okay." Ruu only nodded, and she knew what it means, her life would be chaos in three days.

" Honey let's go we're already late." Her father informed her mother. " Kids, be good, and make sure you lock the door when you leave and remember the golden rule."

" yes dad." Miyu and Ruu chorused.

the golden rule was that, they should not forget to clean the house. Her father established that rule, because according to him, the house represents what kind of person the occupant is, according to him, if the house is dirty, the person living there do not have a good personality, or something like that. They don't mind because they are used on cleaning the house since she was ten so it was not really a big deal.

The engine of the car was heard and the two of them- Miyu and Ruu- rushed to front door and waved at the leaving vehicle.

" Bye Mom! Bye Dad!" They chorused.

The car left and the door closed with Ruu carrying his backpack. She started to walk. When there seemed no signal of Ruu coming up with her, she turned her back and waited for her brother to catch up with her. When he followed, she started to walk again. Unexpectedly small little fingers tugged her skirt. To her surprise, Ruu was looking up to her with eyes as innocent as anyone could have.

Ruu had always been a naughty brother when it comes to her. Miyu can't quite understand why Ruu loves to play pranks on her, or tease her whenever he got the chance. Without fail the word C-H-A-O-S appears on every occasion Ruu was in a meter distance near to her. Once in a while,, she just thought, it was Ruu's way of showing how he loves her, that he was thankful she is his sister. Although he does it in a weird way; but she found it quite sweet.

He held a hand to her, "truce? At least for now, mom said I should be good to you, or else she would confiscate my PSP when she got back." His face was still serious like on those you can see on the faces of businessmen who badly wanted to close a deal.

She gripped his little hands and sweetly smiled, "of course, I've always wanted the world war to end."

He just shrugged his shoulders for an answer and with that; they continued to walk their way to school.

Miyu's POV

This was such a great day! Ruu came up on me and he promised to be a good brother for awhile, I know he was serious based on his face, although I was a little bit disappointed when he said it was just because he wanted his PSP not to be confiscated by mom, but I know he was just making an alibi.

I entered the gates and I watched the big round clock on the center of the main building. I rushed my way upstairs, for it read 7:28 am, and classes start at 7:30.

Luckily, I arrived in an instant for two minutes and Miss Mizuno was just about to enter the room.

Panting heavily, I placed my hand over my chest to catch my breath. Whoo! That was close.

End of POV

Miss Mizuno came into the room and slid her attendance sheet on the pack of papers on the table. Her face was serious as usual as she checked if there was an absent or none.

Kanata's POV

When Miss Mizuno came, my eyes looked for on a certain person. She was eight seconds late again, I thought. Glancing back at the empty chair earlier and was quite relieved it wasn't unoccupied. There she was, Miyu Kouzuki, with her hair messed up and busy breathing in and breathing out to catch some air. It was obvious that she ran again, hoping not to be late this morning. Luck was into her when she arrived with Miss Mizuno ahead of her, so she had a time or shall we say, a second, enough for her to be listed in the class record this morning.

To me, she was the little sister I once desired to have when I was still a child. I was hoping my parents would give me a baby brother or sister to be my playmate. Yeah, Like other kids before, I wanted to have a playmate that I can keep at home; There was a time that I even begged Santa—My longtime friend—to stay at our house, so that I can play with him all the time. I even threw a tantrum when his parents picked him up one afternoon top go home.

Miyu was unlike the other girls I have met. She did not acted like crazy or lovestruck—Like Fan Girls does—the first time we saw each other on a Math summer class, and I like it when she gets angry every time I play pranks on her. It's just that, I became a normal person whenever I was with her. Of course I'm normal, but with other girls like Hanakomachi, I could feel like a celebrity at all times, their eyes were everywhere watching my every move. But with Miyu, the prince—as fangirls describe—was just a commoner, a peasant that lives just like the others. Of course, Nanami and Aya were just like Miyu but I felt that Miyu was exceptional. After I have met her, the feeling that I had before came back. I suddenly wanted to have a sister again, or even a friend, a best friend or something like that. I don't know.

I focused my attention on copying the white marks on the board and started to copy them.

End of Kanata's POV

Santa's POV

I watched Kanata as Miyu sat on her desk. Just a few months ago, he was the Kanata I have known since childhood. I know what he wanted to do, on what he plans next, or when he wanted to eat, in short I could predict his every move. We were like brothers that know every single detail about each other. It was weird, but if there was a prince in every fairytale, I am the so called sidekick, the very loyal and trusted person of the main character.

From the looks of it, I think he had a "crush at first sight" –If there was such a word—at Miyu. I witnessed how Kanata helped Miyu back then when she got no answer on the question for she was sleeping when the teacher called her and told her to solve the problem written on the board. Based on the reaction I have seen on Kanata's face, he was very fascinated with the blonde who was sleeping soundly, and he was very amused and entertained when the teacher tapped her shoulder to wake her up and told her to solve the given problem on the board. Since then, the predictable Kanata turned to become complex and probably, it was because of this blonde with skin as white as snow and emerald orbs that twinkle like a star.

End of Santa's POV

Time few quickly and it was already eleven thirty, Aya, Nanami and Miyu strode to the canteen where you can see every student carrying a tray loaded with food.

Not far enough from Miyu and the rest. The auburn haired "heartthrob" with his friend with Jet black hair emerged from the doorway and joined the line on a stand to get some food.

A ring from the speakers was heard, and it means that there is an announcement to be made. Silence grew inside the room and the only noise heard was the sound of the oil in the frying pan in a stall.

"Good Noon Students. This is Miss Han, and I would like to inform that the Science and Math Fair would be held at the end of this month, which was quite earlier than expected, it was supposed to be 3 months from now but the committee would have another event on January, and so we would be having the Science and Math fair this month. I hope your teachers assigned you in teams or partners so that you can participate on the fair. The deadline on submission of the projects would be this Friday, so I hope you can finish it as earlier as possible. Sorry for the change of plans and schedule. Have a nice day, thank you."

With that the loud groans and protests of everyone could be heard. Everyone has to made a choice to a certain branch of science, Physics, chemistry, statistics, Biology, and many more and it was not that easy. Now, all have to double their hard work for the submission of the project.

Mizuki and the other two of her group mates came to her and enquired about their group project.

"Miyu, we have not yet finished at least half of our work, what do you plan? I think we should double our time in doing the work." Seiya sat on the empty seat beside Nanami.

"Okay that's fine with me, But what do you plan now? how can we make the project if we don't have an extra time in school, we only have 3 more days before the deadline." She said to them.

Nozumo waved a red flower in front of her." We could do an overtime work. He suggested.

"Overtime work?" the five of them chorused.

Mizuno took another bite on his burger at his hand." I think I got what he meant. We have to spend extra time for us to finish it."

"How can we do that?" She was still clueless on what they were planning.

" We could have a sleepover!" Nozumo exclaimed.

"What?" Again, they all chorused.

"It's not a bad Idea but I don't know if it will be good for our group." She said.

Nozumo rolled his eyes. " And why?"

She waved her hand on the air to emphasize her point." Hello! I'm the only girl in the group. It would not be nice to have a sleepover with just me and the three of you."

Nozumo answered her dilemma." If that's your problem, then we can have Aya and Nanami with us."

"What about their project?' Seiya asked.

"Actually." Nanami answered her question," Imai volunteered to do it on her own. She said she would love to assemble stuffs and electronics like that, so we let her do it. After all she knows what to do and she just said that we don't have to worry about our grade. She was more than willing to finish it."

"Wow!" Seiya muttered.

"Yeah and in fact she just said she finished it yesterday." Aya, was still engrossed with the scrip she was scribbling,

"So you can join us for the sleepover?" The three boys asked the two.

"Sure I can come." Nanami answered. " after all I don't have much to do."

" Aya?" Nozumo turned to Aya with hopeful eyes.

"Okay." Was her simple reply.

" That was settled then." Nozumo announced.

" I have to call my mom." She excused herself and went to the ladies room.

She dialed her Mom's number. And not long enough, she could hear her voice from the other line.

" Miyu? Why did you call?"

"Mom, can we have a sleepover at the house? We have to finish our project badly and we have no time to spare at school." She explained everything to her mom.

"Okay, that's fine with me. Br good okay? I have to hung up. I'm busy right now. Your dad is having his lecture at this moment. Bye." Then the voice in the other line disappeared.

" Okay, at the house, let's meet at seven." Then they continued to eat their lunch.

Later that afternoon

Kanata was walking again, with his bag tucked in his arm. His sharp auburn eyes were at the road as if he was thinking over something. On the other hand, Miyu was just a few steps behind fixing the tie of her shoes. That afternoon, she got her PE classes and they were instructed to wear their jogging pants and PE shirt so she had no choice but to wear sneakers.

Unknown to others, even if she had practiced a lot in tying her laces, she would just end up trying it again and again. She doesn't know why, but she cannot get the perfect score in tying shoe laces.

When she was done already with it, she walked faster so that she could reach her destination without tying her shoe laces again and again. She saw the brunette not far enough from her and decided to catch up with him.

She knows he was fast at walking, so if she would walk together with Kanata she might be influenced by his habit of fast pace walking.

" Yo!" She greeted him. He seemed to be drowned with his own thoughts when he turned to her.

"Oh, Miyu, how did you got in there?" his face wondering on how she got to his side. By the Looks in his face, he did not notice her earlier.

She avoided answering his query, instead she asked him. "Why are you so serious all of a sudden, looks like you have a problem because as I saw in your face, you were thinking seriously before I got here."

He glanced at her," Nothing, I am just thinking with the project." He looked gloomy and turned his attention to the road again.

Out of the blue, she asked him. "Would you like to join our sleepover tonight? We'll be finishing our group project at my place."

His face was now stoic as he turned to her again. "It's okay we will be having also a sleepover tonight at my place." He seemed to have a dilemma. But she did not bother to know it. Anyway he might think she's interested in him if she go too far on asking too much questions.

" Okay, I wish our group could finish the work tonight." And she stopped and kneeled down to tie her laces again.

" Geez. What a bother." She whispered.

To her surprise, a pair of hands grabbed the laces on her and started to tie it. And he did the same with the other.

" Next time, don't wear shoes with laces. You might get tripped with these if it gets untied." With that he patted her head and then He continued to walk again.

Was he observing her before she got into him earlier? How did he know? She thought then ran.

For the whole duration of their walk after Kanata tied the laces on her shoes, unexpectedly, the laces was not loosen a bit or untied. It was firmly secured in a knot.

She got home and bid him goodbye. He just nodded and continued to walk leaving her with a smile still plastered on her face. She walked to their doorway and prepared for the sleepover.

How was it?

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